Synopses & Reviews
In How to Grow a Young Reader, authors Kathryn Lindskoog and Ranelda Mack Hunsicker take parents, educators, and book lovers on a lively and informative journey through the world of children's literature.
An exploration of over 1800 titles featuring helpful information such as subject, age, and author, this essential resource is an inspirational, practical, and informative guide to books for any age. Now updated and expanded, How to Grow a Young Reader includes strategies for nurturing the love of books, powerful and convincing reasons to encourage children to read, and a helpful reader's guide to magazines, videos, and reading related software.
Synopsis
In an age of electronic games, TV, videos, and the Internet…You can raise a book lover. Reading opens up a lifetime of learning and delight to children. In How to Grow a Young Reader, Kathryn Lindskoog and Ranelda Mack Hunsicker offer suggestions for creating a reader-friendly home, truths about how literature strengthens character development, and helpful strategies for nurturing a love of reading in any child.
Includes a helpful guide to over 1,800 books.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
About the Author
Kathryn Lindskoog is a prolific writer, teacher, and literary critic. She is probably best known for her book
C. S. Lewis: Mere Christian, an examination of the work of Lewis, who wrote to her, “You know my work better than anyone else Ive met: certainly better than I do myself.” Among her twenty-one other books are
Creative Writing for People Who Cant Not Write and the three-volume
Dantes Divine Comedy: Journey to Joy. The mother of two grown children, she lives in California with her husband.
Ranelda Mack Hunsicker, a former elementary and high school teacher, is now a freelance writer of books and articles and a staff writer for Chuck Swindolls Insight for Living ministry. She has written five books, including In God We Trust: Stories of Faith in American History (with Tim Crater), The Hidden Price of Greatness (with Ray Beeson) and a biography of David Brainerd. She and her husband live in California.